Detect commercials using Watermarks (1 Viewer)

Downzy

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G'day,

I don't know how common watermarks are, but in Australia, most if not all the channels have a watermark logo somwhere on the screen, but this disappears when commercials come on.

I have heard it suggested that there is some software around that is able to detect the existence of a watermark. Something like this would enable MP to pause recording for the duration of the adds, allowing commercial free playback :D

I have no idea how difficult this would be, and I don't even know if it would benefit enough users to be worthwhile, but it's just an idea :)

Such a great product can lead people to have greater expectations, but feel free to tell me that I'm asking way too much...
 
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where can we find comskip, wat products is it used in, and how can we integrate it into mp?
 

Downzy

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January 5, 2005
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Just did a quick google search and found it

http://www.sage-community.org/index.cgi/wiki/ComSkip

Sounds like comskip would do exactly what I was thinking. I also noticed that it appears to be open source.

I'd love to say that I'll try and incorporate it into MP, but unfortunately it's ben a long time since I wrote any code, and even when I did it was only pascal and Cobol (don't think either of those would help).

So what's the chance of one of the extremely talented developers out there having a crack?

Cheers,
Downzy
 

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